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Put together my 2025 round-up!
Highlights:
+ Celebrated Dev & I's 9th year living aboard pino, and 10 years of Hundredrabbits
+ Released 5 rabbit waves pages
+ Sailed to Ucluelet
etc.
@malwaretechMarcus Hutchins 
it amuses me I could write a standin for midwit billionaires via a very small Python script. and it would consume far far far less resources than those LLM data ingest, training & inference systems. eg. ElonMusk.py
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@malwaretechMarcus Hutchins I don’t think the market for midwit richie rich techie podcasts will admit a larger pool of influencers. The people who follow them are born followers, and they want to hang with the big dogs, so there is a natural power law in effect there. TLDR we are stuck with the Paypal mafia forever
I’ve seen reference to “eval” w.r.t. AI. What does it mean?
I agree with 
@nikitonsky , and I think this is at root of much of the managerial mania for LLMs.
Having their terrible ideas go unchecked by underlings with expertise is basically crack cocaine for bad org leadership.
hi, claude successfully ported aasvg to rust so I can use it in dodeca
https://github.com/bearcove/aasvg-rs
it has zero deps and produces the exact same output enjoyyyy
(except mine has light-dark support)
@malwaretechMarcus Hutchins This is how money turns into opinion and opinion turns into damage...
가자지구 엄마들이 자녀의 몸에 이름을 새기는 이유
입력 2025.12.23 07:30
학살의 또 다른 방법, 성폭력
'절멸' 위한 치밀한 계획…재생산 차단, 가족 해체
4·3, 6·25, 베트남전에 이은 '젠더'의 무기화
'위안부' 역사를 기억한다면, 가자를 외면할 수 없다
www.newsnjoy.or.kr/news/article...
가자지구 엄마들이 자녀의 몸에 이름을 새기는 이유
Reviewing Classic Christmas Stories As A Klingon:
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. A Ferenghi businessman is haunted by three spirits who attempt to remind him of his honor. The Ferenghi should have simply slain the demons who attacked him. 3/5 Christmas Bat'leths. Glory to Tiny Tim!
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry. Two pathetic humans attempt a mating ceremony in which they sell their most prized possessions in order to purchase gifts for each other. Incomprehensible. Why does the female not simply bite the male to show her affection. 1/5 Christmas Bat'leths.
The Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffman. A child's toy comes to life and defeats the evil Rat King in glorious hand-to-hand combat. Then the toy's honor is memorialized in dance and song. A true warrior's tale! 5/5 Christmas Bat'leths.
A Charlie Brown Christmas by Charles M. Shulz. A young warrior struggles with internal demons of self-doubt and depression. While selecting a Christmas tree, he symbolically chooses one which reflects how he views himself - a weak tree, unable to support even a single ornament. He lashes out at those he considers his closest friends, attempting to remind them of their honor, and eventually gives up, believing his efforts were ultimately meaningless. But he is mistaken. His words were spoken with the heart of a true Klingon warrior, and his friends wrap the tree in their most prized possessions, giving it the strength to stand on its own, holding the weight of ornaments many times its own weight over. They gather around and sing songs of bravery and courage, and remind the young Klingon that he too will be welcomed into Sto-vo-Kor. Because sometimes the greatest battle a warrior will ever fight is the one inside his own mind and heart. 6/5 Christmas Bat'leths. Glory to the House of Brown.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss. A cautionary tale. A Klingon from a lowly house is shunned by his peers and forced to live without honor on the outskirts of town. Instead of seeking honor and glory on his own like a true Klingon, he instead sneaks around under cover of darkness and steals the town's presents with the help of his faithful targ. As punishment, Kah'less removes his warrior spirit and he is doomed to stay in the small town facing his dishonor every day. If he had the heart of a warrior, he would have done battle against Whoville and claimed the glory of Christmas for his own. 4/5 Christmas Bat'leths.
The Nightmare Before Christmas by Tim Burton. The King of Halloween Town assigns three children to kidnap the demon Sandy Claws because he is a coward who refuses to fight his own battles. They too fail, because none of them possess the heart of a warrior. 0/5 Christmas Bat'leths. Tim Burton has no honor.
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer by Robert L. May. A young warrior is shunned by his peers due to a physical deformity. He leaves his family and house to seek his own glory. He returns after defeating a dentist, a filthy gold-loving Ferenghi prospector, and an abominable snowman. Recognizing his fearless warrior spirit, he is given the place of honor at the front of Santa's sleigh. 5/5 Christmas Bat'leths. Glory upon the House of Rudolph!
가자지구 엄마들이 자녀의 몸에 이름을 새기는 이유
입력 2025.12.23 07:30
학살의 또 다른 방법, 성폭력
'절멸' 위한 치밀한 계획…재생산 차단, 가족 해체
4·3, 6·25, 베트남전에 이은 '젠더'의 무기화
'위안부' 역사를 기억한다면, 가자를 외면할 수 없다
www.newsnjoy.or.kr/news/article...
가자지구 엄마들이 자녀의 몸에 이름을 새기는 이유
Do you want help with using Mastodon or the wider Fediverse?
Please feel free to ask if you have any questions about using this place! There's no such thing as a silly question, it's fine to ask about anything however simple.
I'm especially keen to help new or non-technical people on here 🙂 And yes I am a human being, I don't use AIs!
(Alternatively, you can browse my website at https://fedi.tips which has lots of easy-to-understand help and advice.)
Do you want help with using Mastodon or the wider Fediverse?
Please feel free to ask if you have any questions about using this place! There's no such thing as a silly question, it's fine to ask about anything however simple.
I'm especially keen to help new or non-technical people on here 🙂 And yes I am a human being, I don't use AIs!
(Alternatively, you can browse my website at https://fedi.tips which has lots of easy-to-understand help and advice.)
I haven't written any code by hand in a text editor since the first week of November. My commit graph looks like 📈. Unless calamity strikes, it seems unlikely that I will spend any meaningful time for the rest of my life manually writing code. This will impact me personally and professionally and affect how I spend nearly all of my time, but I am as ready as I can be. I will solve problems with computers until they can do it all themselves or they put me in the ground. That's the job.
Google is testing a feature to let users change their primary @gmail.com address without starting a new account, keeping all data and login options intact https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/google-will-lets-users-change-their-primary-gmail-address-without-making-a-new-account/
blacksmiths are WAY overcomplicating things imo. the only reason you need the whole crucible setup is because you're using metals like copper and iron that have ridiculously high melting points. i've been using gallium and it's so much easier. my men are about to do battle with my new gallium blades and your men are still waiting on ONE greatsword lmao
EDIT: fuck
Hallo #39c3
Gpg.fail
Link: https://gpg.fail
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403200
寝れないの
There's only one right answer here.
Salesforce, one of the world's most valuable enterprise software companies, is pulling back from its heavy reliance on large language models after encountering reliability issues that have shaken executive confidence in the AI. 😂
#39c3 :3
Google is testing a feature to let users change their primary @gmail.com address without starting a new account, keeping all data and login options intact https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/google-will-lets-users-change-their-primary-gmail-address-without-making-a-new-account/
Linux is like HRT for your computer
Code is law, which is to say, shitty
Uxn32 3.0 is out:
https://github.com/randrew/uxn32/releases/tag/3.0
* Updated to be fully compatible with the newest Uxn specifications.
* Added high DPI and per-monitor DPI support.
* A brand new pack of bundled ROMs.
* Still works on Windows 95 through Windows 11, and builds with every compiler for every architecture, including "native" Wine builds with GCC and Clang using Winelib.
비행기 뒷자리에게서 양인의 냄새(odor)가 난다…
이거 열네 시간 어케 버티지
nix-prompt: a clean and modular bash prompt with just the right amount of customization options via 
@randoneeringjustin 
https://lobste.rs/s/cmlfrr #nix
https://github.com/nix-tricks/nix-prompt
I've been experimenting with lightweight activitypub tools like gotosocial and snac2.
So far snac2 works, but seems incompatible with basically every frontend I've tried.
gotosocial is more compatible, but crashes randomly and won't stay online for 24hrs at a time.
What am I doing wrong here?
Anyone have any tips?
Saal 1 ad hoc für Marc-Uwe Kling voll machen und 45 Minuten vor dem Talk keinen Sitzplatz mehr frei haben ist eine Erfahrung.
1000 Dank an alle involvierten Türengel und Stagemanager!
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#39c3
You have leftover pizza in the fridge. You do not have an airfryer.
Also Jason really did that? What a fucking arsehole 🤨
the mastodonian impulse to humorlessly scold
Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)
Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403291
sind die #39c3 dashboards online erreichbar?
After a few days of struggling, I finally realised that it would be easier to make helicopter flight dynamics with Bevy Rapier, and it works now! Flying the helicopter in the simulator is probably as hard as flying a real one.
So it's the Kessler Syndrome but for podcasts 😕
Others were quick to say that they only use social features with real friends and family. I'm not sure why that would be a "but..."; it's the whole point of those features.
Finally, I think Fediverse users are generally more protective of their privacy than the general population.
Time for the board meeting! We're running with scissors live with episode 245. Three sheets to Christmas!
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@dave On topic of attestation discussed in this episode, has anyone looked at at least partly using rel=me ?
An open web standard, and could prove decisively that a feed owner also is owner of a website, and/or multiple other accounts or feeds.
Already used by mastodon, gravatar, flipboard, medium, Wordpress, Wikipedia, threads, and other platforms. So owners of those accounts could prove they are owners of a podcast feed with rel=me.
Worth thinking about.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Attributes/rel/me
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